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Jamaican Track and Field Team
Jamaican Track and Field team is one of the best in the world. They have amazing prospects and very talented athletes. Jamaica has the big honor of having the most successful team in the world in track and field. One of those huge honors started when Jamaica's first track Gold Medalist,DrAuthurWint won the 400m in Olympics 1948. He and other greats athletes like Herb McKenley, Leslie Laing, and George Rhoden putted Jamaica on the map of one of the greatest relays when the team won the 4 x 400 relay in the Olympics 1952. Through out years, Jamaica’s success continued at the Olympics and international competitions with athletes like Donald Quarrie (gold in 200m and silver in 100m, in the 1976 Olympics), Bert Cameron (silver in 400m relay in 1988), Grace Jackson (silver in 200m in 1988), Winthrop Graham (silver in 400m hurdles, 1992), Raymond Stewart, Juliet Cuthbert (silver, 100, 200m, 1992), Deon Hemmings (gold, 400 with hurdles in 1996) and probably the most popular track and field athlete Queen MerleneOttey who won more International and Olympics medal than any of other Jamaican’s athletes. (Athletes)

President
Dr. Warren Blake is a president of the Jamaican Track and Field Association. He was a former student from Kingston College. In 1976, at the age of 22 he was graduated from University of the West Indies as a medical doctor. In 1983 he got scholarship in surgery from Royal College of Glasgow and in 1986 became a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon and has worked in the Public Sector. At the United Kingdom he has studied in Business Administration and Computing and got a post graduate DBA in business administration from the University of Manchester. He got also a BSc honors in Computing from University of Technology (UTECH) and currently taking a Masters in Information Security. Doctor Blake has a lot of experience serving at many boards and has a big sporting interest. He works as President of the Jamaica Rifle Association, the Chairman of the Jamaica Sub-Aqua Club and is the current President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA). He is one of the members who found the Jamaica Association of Sports Medicine and was the Chairman of the Medical and Anti-Doping Committee of the JAAA. He used to do drug testing for the JAAA and Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) internationally and locally. He worked also as the chief anti-doping delegate at several regional games which were controlled by NorthAmerican, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC). He travels a lot with Jamaica’s senior teams to major championships and he was the athletic trainer for the athletic team in Athens, Greece 2004, Beijing, China 2008 and London 2012 Olympics. In Qatar, 2010, he did a dual role as a team doctor and team manager at the World Indoor Championships. In addition in Australia 2006, he also represented his country, Jamaica as an athlete at the Commonwealth Gamesin Target Pistol Shooting. (About Us, Our President)

Athletes and their career highlights
Aleen Bailey: 2009 World Championships-1st place, 4x100m-Relay

Asafa Powell: 2009 IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final-2nd place, 100m; 2008 6th IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart-1st place-100m; The XXIX Olympic Games, Beijing-5th place, 100m

Brigitte Foster-Hylton: 2011 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Daegu-4th place in semi-final-100m-Hurdles; 2009 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin-1st place, 100m-Hurdles. Has run sixty four legal marks below 12.70. Has the National Record in the 100m-Hurdles.

Damar Forbes: 2011 CAC Championships, Mayaguez-2nd place – Long Jump

Davita Prendergast: 2010 World Indoor Championships- 3rd place (bronze medal)-4x400m-Relay; 2007 World Championships-2nd place (silver medal)-4x400m-Relay; NCAA Div. II Championships-1st place-400m; 2006 NCAA Div. II Championships-1st place-400m

Indira Spence: 2011 NCAA Div. II-1st place (Champion)-60m-Hurdles (Indoor), 2nd place-100m-Hurdles (Outdoor); 2010 NCAA Div. II- 1st place (Champion)-60m-Hurdles (Indoor), 2nd place-100m-Hurdles (Outdoor)

Jason Morgan: 2011 Pan American Games, Guadalajara-8th-Discus; 2010 Central American & Caribbean Games, Mayaguez-1st –Discus

Jovanee Jarrett: 2009 National Championships-1st place (National Champion)-Long Jump; 2010 National Championships-1st place (National Champion)-Long Jump; CAC Games-2nd place (Silver Medal)-Long Jump

Michael Frater: 2009 IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki-5th place-100m; 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin-4x100m-Relay

Melanie Walker: 2011 13th IAAF World Championships, Daegu-2nd place-400m Hurdles; 2009 IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki-1st-400m-Hurdles; 12th World Championships, Berlin-1st place-400m-Hurdles; 2008 IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart-1st place-400m-Hurdles; The XXIX Olympic Games, Beijing-1st place-400m-Hurdles

Sherone Simpson: 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing-2nd place (Silver Medal) -100m

Usain Bolt-2013 World Championships, Moscow-1st place-100m, 200m, 4x100m-Relay; 2011World Championships, Daegu-200m,4x100m-Relay; 2009 World Championships, Berlin-1st place-100m,200m,4x100m-Relay; 2009 World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki-1st place-200m; 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing-100m, 200m, 4x100m-Relay; 2012 Olympic Games, London-100m, 200m, 4x100m-Relay

Coaches Corner
One of the main parts to get success is to have a good coaching program. The Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association is trying to build the right environment for their world-class athletes. In this journey, coaches are the important part and so developing strategies that will challenge, excite and let coaches to push the national news to new levels. An exact amount of commitment from the coaching fraternity across the country is required to obtain goals and the JAAA looking forward to build relationships with Coaches, so together they can provide athletes with every possible support, resource and motivation to excel. The JAAA understands that in order to keep their world class results going for Jamaica it needs coaches with strong motivation and big experience who have passion and drive. The JAAA try to commit through its leadership to renew relationships with their coaches. In December 2004, with the election of a new executive committee, then continued by the inclusion of several resource persons in the committee structure, this renewal process began. At the moment Jamaica is in the top 10 in World Athletics. (About Us; Coaches Corner, Coaches Training Programme 2013)

See also:

 * Melaine Walker
 * Usain Bolt
 * Asafa Powell
 * Track and field
 * Aleen Bailey
 * Brigitte Foster-Hylton
 * Michael Frater
 * Sherone Simpson

References:

 * 1) www.trackandfieldja.com, About Us page. Retrieved 10.14.2013
 * 2) www.trackandfieldja.com, Athletes page. Retrieved 10.14.2013

External Links:
http://www.trackandfieldja.com